In His Name Devotionals
UNLIMITED PRAYER
In His Name Devotionals
UNLIMITED PRAYER
“Men ought always to pray.” (Luke 18:1 KJV)
When you were a child, were you taught to pray with your head bowed, eyes closed, and hands folded? Did you continue to believe in your youth that perhaps this was the only acceptable mode of prayer?
Praying with eyes closed is a helpful way to avoid distractions, but it is not mandated in Holy Scripture, nor most of the other limitations people often place on prayer. For example, some want to limit prayer to certain posture, but Scripture tells of people praying while standing, sitting, kneeling, looking upward, bowing down, and lifting up their hands.
Some try to limit prayer to certain times of the day, such as morning or evening. But in the Bible people prayed at all times: morning, evening, three times a day, before meals, by the sea, in the street, in the Temple, in bed, at home, in the stomach of a fish, in battle, on a housetop, in a prison, in the wilderness, and on a cross.
The point is clear: there is no specific, correct mode or kind of prayer, and prayer is not limited by your location or circumstances. You are to pray always. That includes any kind of prayer, on any subject, at any time of the day or night.
